Erin Brockovich:
The Real-Life Sequel

Updated Nov. 26, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

By James K. Glassman, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and host of www.TechCentralStation.com

Unlike Emma Bovary and Scarlett O'Hara, Erin Brockovich is a real, live person. She's a 41-year-old mother of three with a gift for publicity. Julia Roberts won an Oscar playing her in the eponymous movie about a legal assistant who got 650 prospective plaintiffs together in 1993 in the desert town of Hinkley, Calif., to...